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Growing Organic Bibliography and References
The following is an informal bibliographical list of publications and resources referenced directly or indirectly in the Growing Organic pages. The documents and resources are linked where possible. Many of the documents are not available in a digital form, here the necessary information is provided for inter-library loan or purchase.

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Eco-Lógica Perú and IFOAM  Bioferia CD, A Farmers’ Market in Peru, 2002

Bunch Roland, Two Ears of Corn. A Guide to People-Centered Agricultural Improvement.  1985.

Chain empowerment: Supporting African Farmers to develop Markets.
pdf KIT, Faida Mali and IIRR. 2006.
 
Comercialización: Resumen de experiencias (external site) Calvo Reyes, Harold; Pomares Herrera Germán SIMAS 2003

Developing local marketing initiatives for organic products in Asia. A Guide for Small & Medium Enterprises, IFOAM 2004

Hamm, U. and Michelsen, J. (2000), Analysis of the organic food markets in Europe in Proceedings of the 13th International Scientific Conference, IFOAM & FIBL, Basel, Switzerland p. 507-510 (external summary)

Ndungu, S. K. The Development of a Consumer awareness and Education Concept Based on A Consumer Survey of Attitudes and Preferences Towards Organic Foods and on the Review of Existing PR Materials in East Africa. Edited by . IFOAM (2006) download the pdf

Organic markets in Africa.pdf, Gunnar Rundgren & Peter Lustig, IFOAM, June 2007

Salvador V. Garibay1 and Katke Jyoti2,Market Opportunities and Challenges for Indian Organic Products.pdf,  Research
Institute of Organic Agriculture (FIBL)1 and ACNielsen ORG-MARG2 February 2003

Marketing for small-scale producers, Agrodok 26, Agromisa.pdf, © Agromisa Foundation, Wageningen, 2004.

"New Evidence Confirms the Nutritional Superiority of Plant-Based Organic Foods," State of Science Review, March 2008

FJ Koekoek, Organic Exporter Guide-Hands-on help for organic exports from Africa,  EPOPA 2006

Rahmann, Gerold (2002) On farm organic dairy sheep and goat breeding in Germany. Paper presented at IFOAM 2002 14th Organic World Congress "Cultivating Communities", Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 21-28 August, 2002; Published in Proceeding of the 14th IFOAM Organic World Congress, page pp. 94-94.

Roundtable: Organic Agriculture and Market Linkages, Organized by FAO and IFOAM, workshop report

S. Padel, Influence of Policy Support on Organic Farming in the European Union, 1999

SIMAS Campesinos: comercialización, con todas las de ley .pdf 2005

Starting a cooperative, Farmer-controlled economic initiatives, Agrodok 38, Agromisa

The first Mile Project, IFAD

Waldenström Cecilia, Constructing the World in a Dialogue. A study of Advisory Situations in Swedish Agriculture,  2001

Faida Mali, IIRR, Chain empowerment: Supporting African Farmers to develop Markets. KIT,  2006.Royal Tropical Institute: Chain Empowerent

Codex Alimentarius Guidelines GL 32 (Official Standards List)

Calvo Reyes, Harold, Pomares Herrera Germán, Comercialización: Resumen de experiencias,   SIMAS 2003

Damiani, Octavio (2002), Small Farmers and Organic Agriculture: Lessons Learned from Latin America and the Caribbean, International Fund for Agricultural Development, Rome (IFAD Evaluaion)

Developing local marketing initiatives for organic products in Asia. A Guide for Small & Medium Enterprises, IFOAM 2004

Dimitri, Carolyn and Oberholtzer, Lydia, (2005) Market-Led Versus Government-Facilitated Growth: Development of the U.S. and EU Organic Agricultural Sectors, by, WRS-05-05, USDA, Economic Research Service

Berndt Neugebauer, Ecologically Appropriate Agriculture,  1995

E.M.A Smaling, O. Oenema, Estimating Nutrient Balances in Agro-Ecosystems at Different Spatial Scales.  CRC Press LLC. 1997. ISBN 0-8493-7443-X. (order from Wageningen UR)

FAO Right to Food and the Impact of Liquid Biofuels (Agrofuels)

Giovannucci, Daniele (2005). Organic Agriculture and Poverty Reduction in Asia. International Fund for Agricultural Development: Rome

Gunnar Rundgren & Peter Lustig, June, IFOAM, Organic markets in Africa,  2007

J Vlaming, J.N Gitari, M.S. van Wijk, Farmers and researchers on their way to Integrated Nutrient Management.  ILEIA Newsletter Vol. 13 No. 3 p. 6.

Laurens van Veldhuizen, Ann Waters-Bayer, Ricardo Ramírez (editor), Farmers’ research in Practice, lessons from the field,  1997 (available from Alibris)

Hamm, U. and Michelsen, J. (2000), Analysis of the organic food markets in Europe in Proceedings of the 13th International Scientific Conference, IFOAM & FIBL, Basel, Switzerland p. 507-510 (The World Grows Organic 2000)

Ndungu Samuel K,  The Development of a Consumer awareness and Education Concept Based on A Consumer Survey of Attitudes and Preferences Towards Organic Foods and on the Review of Existing PR Materials in East Africa.IFOAM (2006) (download the .pdf)

Marketing for small-scale producers, Agrodok 26, Agromisa,

FJ Koekoek, Organic Exporter Guide-Hands-on help for organic exports from Africa,  EPOPA 2006, EPOPA

Roundtable: Organic Agriculture and Market Linkages, Organized by FAO and IFOAM, workshop report, Index FTP, FAO Organic ag

Harmonization and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture, FAO, UNCTAD, and IFOAM, Rome 2005

HAUSER, MICHAEL Livelihood  Security and Organic Agriculture. The Case of Uganda University of Agricultural Sciences (BOKU), Institute of Organic Farming, Austria

IFOAM Partners and Projects

IFOAM Publications List

IFOAM Accreditation Operating Manual, IOAS 2006 (IOAS Website)
(FiBL on International Cooperation)

IFOAM/ IOIA International Organic Inspection Manual, IFOAM Bonn 2000

IFOAM Norms for Organic Production and Processing, IFOAM, Bonn 2005

IFOAM Partners and Projects

IFOAM Publications List

IFOAM Smallholder Group Certification Training Curriculum for Producer Organizations + Guidance Manual IFOAM, May 2004

IFOAM Smallholder Group Certification Training Curriculum on the Evaluation of Internal Control Systems + Guidance Manual, IFOAM, October 2004


ILEIA Newsletter. Organic Farming. Nicolas Lampkin. Farming Press. Ipswich. GB. 1990 (selected ILEIA articles available on the LEISA website)

IOAS e-mail update, bi-monthly news brief offered by IOAS for public-sector bodies throughout the world who are involved in the regulation of the organic sector.

ISO/IEC Guide 65: 1996(E), General Requirements for Bodies Operating Product Certification Systems

Koopmans R, Starting a Cooperative, Farmer-controlled economic initiatives, Agrodok 38

Otto Schmid,  Stakeholder Involvement in Action Plans and/or Policies for Organic Food and Farming – ORGAP Project Recomendations, 2008

Participatory Methods in Community-Based Coastal Resource Management Vol.1-3, IIRR, 1998

Pertev, Rashid/Giussepina, Pela/Feingold, Jo/Pirault, Jacqueline/Savary Roger, IFAP Sustainable farming and the role of farmers organization,  1990 (FAO online catalogue)

Pretty, J., Brett, C., Gee, D., Hine, R., Mason, C.F., Morison, J.I.L., Raven, H., Rayment, M., van der Bijl, G., 2000. An assessment of the total external costs of UK agriculture. Agricultural Systems 65 (2), 113–136.

Pretty, Jules, Dobbs, Thomas L (2004), Agri-Environmental Stewardship Schemes and Multifunctionality in Review of Agricultural Economics volume 26 p 220-237

Pretty, Jules, Guijt, Irene Beyond farmer first, Scoones, Ian (editor) Thompson, John (editor), A trainer’s Guide for Participatory Learning and Action,  1994 (for sale on the IIED website)

Rundgren, Gunnar (2006) Best practices for organic policy: what developing country governments can do to promote the organic sector, UNEP-UNCTAD CBTF

Rundgren, Gunnar, Building Trust in Organic, IFOAM 2007.

Rundgren, Gunnar (2002), ‘ Is there a need for a regulatory framework’ , The Organic Standard, Issue 11 March

Rundgren, Gunnar (2005) Certified organic: reducing barriers to developing-country exports of conformity assessment services, OECD, Paris

Salvador V. Garibay, Katke Jyoti, A.C. Nielsen, Market Opportunities and Challenges for Indian Organic Products,  Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FIBL, February 2003

Selener D, Chenier J, Zelaya R, Farmer to Farmer Extension, Lessons from the Field, 1997

Twarog Sophia (2006) in Trade and Environment Review 2006 UNCTAD/DITC/TED/2005/12, Geneva

Journals:

The Inspector’s Report The newsletter of the IOIA. Published quarterly.

The Organic Standard; A monthly electronic journal for organic standards, regulations, and certification.

IFOAM Ecology and Farming

 

Websites:

Codex Alimentarius.

Core Organic

FAO Organic Agriculture specific web-resources

IFAD The first Mile Project 2008

IFOAM Organic Directory

IFOAM PGS Page

International Society of Organic Agriculture Research

Organic Resource Management and Agricultural Technologies

Organic Research Database

The European Union website for organic farming.

The website of the International Task Force of Harmonisation and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture. a wealth of information related to regulations for international trade in organic products.

The National Organic Program of the United States. Contains the organic rules, information about how to be NOP-
accredited, etc.

International Organic Accreditation Services, information about IFOAM  accreditation and ISO 65 accreditation by the IOAS.

Independent Organic Inspectors Association, information on forthcoming inspector training
programs.

The portal for organic in the FAO,  relevant legislation in many countries.

Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Information for trainers and extensionists

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Grolink Website

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The European Union website for organic farming

Organic Research Database
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Core Organic

The International Task Force of Harmonization and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture

International Organic Accreditation Services

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The portal for organic in the FAO

Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Information for trainers and extensionists

The National Organic Program of the United States
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